"Saturday Night Live's" overstuffed 40th anniversary special was a sometimes stark reminder of the truth about the show. People have been looking wistfully back to its early days and pronouncing it dead and unfunny for years, but the fact is, it's always had a lot of unfunny, even tedious bits saved by the occasional flash of brilliance. So it was appropriate that SNL 40 was mostly tedious and occasionally brilliant. For brilliance, let's start with the "Jeopardy" re-creation starring Will Ferrell as the long-suffering Alex Trebek, tormented by the likes of Sean Connery, Justin Bieber, Burt Reynolds and, in...

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No, it wasn’t the Oscars, but it sure felt that way.
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